A history of Arabic sciences and mathematics / Roshdi Rashed ; translated by J.V. Field.
By: Rashed, Roshdi [author.].
Contributor(s): Field, J. V [translator.].
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East.Publisher: London : Routledge, ©2017Description: 664 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume ISBN: 9780415582193.Subject(s): Mathematics -- Philosophy -- Arab countries -- History | Mathematics -- Arab countries -- History | Mathematics, Medieval | Science -- Philosophy -- Arab countries -- History | Science -- Arab countries -- History | Science, MedievalGenre/Form: Print books.Online resources: Full text available via the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | Q125 .A5 R37 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000014358 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-648) and index.
volume 1. Founding figures and commentators in Arabic mathematics -- volume 2. Ibn al-Haytham and analytical mathematics -- volume 3. Ibn al-Haytham's theory of conics, geometrical constructions, and practical geometry -- volume 4. Ibn al-Haytham, new spherical geometry and astronomy -- volume 5. Ibn al-Haytham's geometical methods and the philosophy of mathematics.
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"This fifth volume of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics is complemented by four preceding volumes which focused on the main chapters of classical mathematics: infinitesimal geometry, theory of conics and its applications, spherical geometry, mathematical astronomy, etc.This book includes seven main works of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) and of two of his predecessors, Thabit ibn Qurra and al-Sijz?:The circle, its transformations and its properties; Analysis and synthesis: the founding of analytical art; A new mathematical discipline: the Knowns; The geometrisation of place;Analysis and synthesis: examples of the geometry of triangles;Axiomatic method and invention: Thabit ibn Qurra;The idea of an Ars Inveniendi: al-Sijz?.Including extensive commentary from one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, this fundamental text is essential reading for historians and mathematicians at the most advanced levels of research."--Provided by publisher.
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